New at Alliant!

Alliant is upgrading our current Outlook web mail to Microsoft's newest Office 365 platform. We are happy to announce that with this latest offering our students now have many additional features and enhancements including the following:

Office Online - Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote

Business Class Email, Calendar and Contacts with a 50 Gigabyte Inbox

File storage and sharing with 1 Terabyte of space

Online Video Meetings and Instant Messaging via Lync

Private Social Networking via Yammer

Perpetual Access to above services

All of your previous email activity will be available on the new system, you will not lose any email data.

Our students and adjunct accounts have been moved to O365 and we are in the process of migrating faculty and staff accounts to O365.If you have any questions or concerns, please email IT Helpdesk or phone 858-635-4357, option 2.

Logging On

If you are unable to log-in please email IT Helpdesk or phone 858-635-4357, option 2.

Once logged in you will be presented with your mailbox.

The email features will be on the left-hand side of the screen.

Additional features will be listed at the topCalendar- update and access your calendar with appointments and schedulesPeople- update and access your contacts Tasks- enter and view remindersOneDrive- access to your 1TB shared drive and to Word, Power Point, Excel, and One Note.

Setting Up Email On Your Phone or Tablet

Use the below photos and captions to set up your mail on an iOS device.1. Go to "Settings"2. Select "Mail"3. Select "Add Account"4. Select "Exchange"5. Enter your email address password, and a description. It may give an error the first time you hit next, try again and it should sync.